Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Macnee

Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

Maximilian Schell

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.

Hunter Tylo

I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

Holliday Grainger

I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.

Jennifer Garner

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

Joel Kinnaman

My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

AnnaLynne McCord

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

Kathy Bates

what informs her, both as an actress and as a director, is that she's a keen observer of the human condition.

Dree Hemingway

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.

Clive Owen

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

Anna Nicole Smith

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

Anna Nicole Smith

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

Claire Bloom

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

Christy Turlington

Now every model wants to be an actress

Angela Lansbury

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

Alicia Silverstone

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Amy Jo Johnson

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

Amy Irving

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

Ana Gasteyer

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

Amanda Burton

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

Honeysuckle Weeks

WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people's expectations, fashions or opinions. She's probably the coolest English actress there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic.

Albert Einstein

Here I am, just an actress with nothing to say and crowds of people turn up to see me. Yet here is Einstein and the only person who turns up for him is myself.

Elizabeth Wilson

I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.

Esha Gupta

While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I've become an actress today, I still have those traits.

Edward Hall

Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.

Kim Cattrall

Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.

Kathy Baker

I worry about my face not having expression. I've never been known for glamour, so it's probably easier for me than it is for someone who has been known for her incredible beauty and glamour. I always wanted to be Geraldine Page, who was just a fabulous actress with just a nice, normal, expressive face.

Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.

Jane Asher

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

Miranda Otto

When I did A Doll's House I felt like I learnt so much, ... That's another reason to do this, I wanted to push myself and see what else I could learn from doing it. Because Robyn's an actress as well, I feel like I learn a lot of technique and things from her.

Sharon Stone

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.